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T1 Invisible or inaudible? The representation of working-class immigrants in the short fiction of Junot Díaz
A1 Fernández Jiménez, Mónica
K1 Díaz, Junot
K1 Sound
K1 Silence
K1 Short story
K1 Immigration
K1 Otherness
AB In Junot Díaz’s short story collections, Drown (1996) and This Is How You LoseHer (2012), sound plays a crucial role in the representation of the experiences ofthe Dominican migrants in the United States who populate their pages. The collectionsshow the liminal situations which the stories’ characters face, emphasizingtheir shifting acoustic environments and the pressure to shape one’s own sonicidentity to meet the demands of the new language and culture. The experiences ofthese Dominican migrants – particularly how they are targeted by the Americansthey encounter because of their accents – reflect the politics of a cultural neoracismwhich differs from the discourse of colonial Otherness but which bears thesame monocultural logic. As such, the stories’ migrants become silenced ratherthan invisible. At the same time, a belief in the power of the Other’s personal andculturally specific voice as a transformative element is emphasized in these collectionswith Díaz’s use of Spanish and the narrator’s persistent presence throughoutall of the stories.
PB Intellect Books
SN 2043-0701
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/47730
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/47730
LA eng
NO Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Julio 2021, vol. 11, n. 1-2, p. 27-38
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-may-2024